Prison Life MCQs
Prison Life MCQs
Answer these 20 Prison Life MCQs and see how sharp is your knowledge of Prison Life.
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1: Separating offenders from the general population of the prison. Often solitary confinement is called ___________ .
A. Classification Team
B. Administrative Segregation
C. General Population
D. Conjugal Visits
2: A group of experts who evaluate newly incarcerated prisoners is known as:
A. Classification Team
B. Administrative Segregation
C. General Population
D. Conjugal Visits
3: Conjugal Visits are unsupervised visits between prisoners and their spouses.
A. True
B. False
4: The main part of the prison where most offenders are kept is called ____________ .
A. General Population
B. Hands-off Doctrine
C. Inmate Code
D. None of these
5: The (now abandoned) legal doctrine that believed that courts should let prison officials run prisons in whatever way these officials deemed appropriate is known as:
A. General Population
B. Hands-off Doctrine
C. Inmate Code
D. None of these
6: Inmate Code is the informal social rules governing prisoner conduct.
A. True
B. False
7: __________ is the effect of long-term incarceration that leaves inmates unable to function outside of the prison’s structure.
A. Reception Center
B. Institutionalization
C. Protective Custody Unit
D. Presentence Investigation Report
8: An analysis of a convicted offender provided to the court by a probation officer that examines the background of the offender is called _____________ .
A. Reception Center
B. Institutionalization
C. Protective Custody Unit
D. Presentence Investigation Report
9: A section of a prison where offenders who need to be separated from other inmates are held is known as:
A. Reception Center
B. Institutionalization
C. Protective Custody Unit
D. Presentence Investigation Report
10: Reception Center ia a location where newly incarcerated offenders are processed.
A. True
B. False
11: Slaves of the State is the legal status of prisoners until the _________ .
A. 1960s
B. 1980s
C. 1985s
D. 1860s
12: A psychological study conducted on college students that examined how the prison structure of guards and inmates affects human behavior is called __________ .
A. Total Institutions
B. Stanford Prison Experiment
C. Victim Impact Statement
D. Supermax
13: Supermax is the highest security level of incarceration.
A. True
B. False
14: Institutions like prisons, mental hospitals, and the military where virtually every aspect of an individual’s life is controlled is known as:
A. Total Institutions
B. Stanford Prison Experiment
C. Victim Impact Statement
D. Supermax
15: Testimony from a victim provided at sentencing, where she explains the effect that the crime had on her is called ___________ .
A. Total Institutions
B. Stanford Prison Experiment
C. Victim Impact Statement
D. Supermax
16: High-security facilities handle the most dangerous prisoners.
A. True
B. False
17: The number of female prisoners has been steadily increasing at the ______ level.
A. Local
B. State
C. Federal
D. All of these
18: ______ refers to the slow eroding of the prisoner’s ability to function outside of the context of the prison.
A. Recidivism
B. Classification
C. Industrialization
D. Institutionalization
19: Prisoners do not have the same freedom of speech as free people have.
A. True
B. False
20: The United States has the highest rate of prisoners per capita in the world as well as the most prisoners overall.
A. True
B. False
21: Sociologists often describe prisons as total institutions.
A. True
B. False
22: The Presentence Investigative Report (PSIR) is compiled by a ______.
A. Judge
B. Probation officer
C. Prosecutor
D. Arresting officer
23: A disproportionate number of the prison population is ______.
A. Young
B. Hispanic
C. Over the age of 40
D. Educated
24: The lowest level of prisons at the federal level are referred to as ______.
A. Minimum security
B. Low security
C. Medium security
D. Maximum security
25: Females are more likely to be incarceration for violent crimes.
A. True
B. False
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